Lithuania to reconsider anti-trans lawLithuania will discuss whether to ban gender reassignment surgery, contradicting European law30 November 2012 | By Joe Morgan
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/lithuania-reconsider-anti-trans-law301112Lithuania will discuss a bill banning gender reassignment surgery, even after it was dropped last year.
Lithuania is about to reconsider an anti-trans law that will ban gender reassignment surgery.
After an identical draft amendment was submitted in 2011, and failed to be adopted, it is presumed this motion is seeking to test the new Parliament's attitudes towards transgender issues.
Antanas Matulas, a right-wing Christian politician and on the committee for health affairs, has resubmitted a draft amendment to the Civil Code saying 'society is not ready to accept' transgender people.
At present, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), in 2007, Lithuania is obliged to enact a law regulating the procedure and conditions of gender reassignment.
At present, the civil code provides that any unmarried person of full age is entitled to medical gender reassignment if medically feasible, but a law enforcing this, as suggested by the ECtHR, is missing.
